Monday, Aug. 23


Zooming In - Zooming Out

Zoom (wordless picture book by Istvan Banyai)
  1. Choose a Zoom card that represents your time at ISA or a memorable ISA experience
  2. Introduce self and explain choice of Zoom image
  3. Work as a group to put the cards together (organize/sequence them)

Debrief: How did the process of organizing the images relate to your experiences at ISA?What does the resulting product suggest about the world? (different perspectives, interconnectedness)

Tuesday, Aug. 24


21cGL in Visual Language

Why do you think each of these 2 images might be a good visual symbol for our class?
Examine, analyze & discuss: One World - One Web and The network is more powerful than the node

Shift Happens

Watch Did You Know? 2.0by Karl Fischand Scott McLeod


*Alternate versions include Did You Know 3.0(2008 version) and Shift Happens(U2 "Beautiful Day" remix)*See additional resources on the Shift Happens wiki
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learners will have . . . 10 to 14 jobs . . .by their 38th birthday.Many of today’s college majors didn’t exist 10 years ago. What will they study 10 years from now? We are living in exponential times.
The amount of technical information is doubling every two years. By 2010, it’s predicted to double . . . every 72 hours.
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist . . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

Active Viewing - Questions for Discussion

1. Give each student 3 sticky notes/index cards

2. Record key points on sticky notes while watching
  • What stands out to you?
  • What does the message of the video mean to you?

3. Sort notes/cards into categories - discuss the big ideas that emerge
  • Who is the intended audience for this video?
  • How do you think you are you meant to respond?
  • If this video was made in 2006, what are the implications for us in 2010?

Wednesday, Aug. 25


Leadership in the Global Age

What is your concept of a global leader?
Express in a word (individually), post and discuss
Pairs create a nonlinguistic representation, share and post

Imagine Leadership

Another video by XPLANE

Six-minute video asks viewers to imagine how leadership can address some of the most pressing problems in the world, including a vibrant economy, society, and environment
Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper of Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative collaborated with XPLANE to create this video in order to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership to address some of society's most pressing problems.
"It is my desire to inspire people of all ages and social demographics to think about leadership on a broad level, contemplate what it means to them and what individual impact they can have when it comes to leading," says Nohria
Debrief Imagine Leadership video using Microlab protocol in triads using the Microlab Guidelines
  • What part of the message resonanted most with you?
  • What do you think is the author's intended message of the video?
  • What are you feeling and thinking after seeing the video?

Thursday, Aug. 26


The Person of the Year is YOU

Read cover story from Time magazine's person of the year 2006
Time_Person_of_Year_2006.jpg

Save the Last Word for Me
  1. Select a sentence or short passage from the text that you would like to discuss in your group.
  2. To start a new round, introduce your selection.
  3. Let everyone else respond to the selection first. Then you have “the last word.”
  4. Take turns until everyone has had the chance to introduce a sentence/passage from the essay for discussion.

*For more on the evolution of journalism in the Web 2.0 world, see NPR: AOL Aims High with Hyperlocal Journalism Project

Friday, Aug. 27

Course Objectives

Introduce 21c GL Course Description
Sorting activity with the Global Leadership Performance Outcomes - put them in categories - bold headings at the top


Flat Classroom Overview

Handshake - get to know your team - Ning (social/educational networking site)
Collaborative Research - Wiki - Hawaiian for "quick" - co-write pages (similar to Wikipedia)
Social Bookmarking - Diigo - share resources your finding with others in the project
Multimedia project - involves outsourcing - you give a clip and get a clip from somewhere else in the world
Student Summit - live web presentation of your projects to a global audience

How do you see these components fulfilling the objectives of the course?
Identify the performance outcomes you think the Flat Classroom Project will most likely address.

Did You Know 4.0



A Day in the Internet (infographic from Nov. 2010)